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It's very interesting how so many English folk heroes are criminals
@InvaderXan *horrible histories' dick turpin song immediately starts playing in my head after reading*
@scottishwobbly I'm going to have to look that one up!
TRASH 
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if they're trying to make highwaymen seem unsexy here??? they are NOT doing a good job
@InvaderXan
@chillgamesh @InvaderXan that's why it's so good I am all about dick Turpin what a suave twink
@scottishwobbly @chillgamesh Yeah, he’s been glamourised but the real Dick Turpin was actually a villain who robbed and brutalised farmers as well as rich people. Not exactly a hero.
@InvaderXan @chillgamesh but is that what u take away from this music video?
@scottishwobbly @InvaderXan it absolutely isn't! that's what im sayin
@scottishwobbly @chillgamesh Well, no, obvs. Like I said. Glamourised 
@InvaderXan And, yet, somehow they still have a monarchy
@auravulpes They did actually have a revolution one time, like France, when they got rid of the monarchy. And then... they put them back?... for some reason...? I don't know the full story.
@InvaderXan oh?
(i am not familiar enough with English history/literature)
@meena Lots of them were thieves, pirates, or smugglers. Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Francis Drake, Tom Crocker.
Many of them, at least in the stories, took things from the wealthy and helped their local communities – though how much of this is true and how much is just myth is uncertain. Robin Hood, for instance, is famous for giving to the poor. Dick Turpin, on the other hand, was probably less altruistic.
labor; folk heroes; us pol?
labor; folk heroes; us pol?